Re: Info faces

From:

Eli Zaretskii

Subject:

Re: Info faces

Date:

Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:45:38 +0200

> From: address@hidden (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjoha?=
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> Date: 25 Oct 2000 23:31:48 +0200
>
> Suppose we have Emacs running under X, and without `-nw'. Then any
> `-name' argument given to an xterm invocation does not affect the
> background color of Emacs at all. And if the `-name' argument is
> given to Emacs itself, then Emacs surely knows what it was, since
> Emacs knows its own command line arguments.
If Emacs knows that from looking at its argv[], then I understand why
this might be hard inside "emacs -nw". Thanks for the explanation.
> Maybe we could start with a simple mechanism which works right often,
> then document it.
Sure, anything that cannot be done automagically should be
documented.